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' No. 70,385. Patented Nov. 5, 1867.

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Letters Patent Np. 70,385, dated lVovembt-r 5, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOBAGGO-SMOKIN TUBE.

To ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. ALEXANDER, of Delhi, in the county ofHamilton, and Statc of Ohio, have invented a new and usefulTobacco-Smoking Tube; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof.

The nature of my invention consists in providing a tube, in the form ofa cigar, to be filled with fine-cut smoking-tobacco, and so constructedthat the smoke will be drawn from the fire to the month without passingthrough the tobacco, or depositing any nicotine therein. In theaccompanying drawings Figure is a sectional View of asmoking-tube,-having the draught around the outer surface of thecylindrical column of tobacco, and

Figure 2 is a sectional View of a similar tube, having the draughtthrough the centre.

A, fig. 1, is a cylindrical tube of fine wire gauze, for containing .thefine-cut tobacco. This wire-gauze cylinder isv insertedin an outer tube,B, which may be of glass, wood, metal, paper, or any other suitablematerial. The end of-said wire-gauze cylinder next to the mouth isstopped by a cork, c, or other suitable stopper. The said cylinder.being filled with fine-cut tobacco, and lighted at the outer end, andsuction being applied at the mouth-end o'f theouter tube, the smoke,instead of being drawn up through the tobacco, will pass directly fromthe fire out through the interstices of the wire gauze, and pass up tothe mouth through the annular space between the wire-gauze cylinder andthe outer tube B. Consequently, the tobacco in the and next to themouth, when the filling is nearly all consumed, will yield a smoke asswect, and as free from the effects of nicotine, as when first lighted.The outer tube B (fig. 1) tapers from the middle portion towards eachend. The inner cylinder A should fill the outer tube, so as to fitclosely'at each end, but leave an annular space, S, between it and theouter tube except at theirpoints of contact at each cndof the innercylinder.

In fig. 2 a modification'of the same invention is shown. C is a smallwire-gauze cylinder in the centre of the outer tube 13. This smallcylinder, at the end next to the mouth, passes centrally through a cork,c, or other suitable stopper, which fills the outer tube B. In this casethe outer tube is filled with fine-cut tobacco, the

- small inner cylinder being left empty. It is manifest thntthc smokewill be drawn to the centre, and will pass up to the mouth through saidsmall wire-gauze cylinder without passing through the tobacco, thee'fi'ectsbcing precisely the some as when drawn up in a space around theoutside of the tobacco. When this form of construction is adopted, theouter tube B, if made of wood or any combustible substance, should belined inside with metal. Instead of making the inner cylinders A and Cof wire gauze, they may be made of thin sheet mctal,fincly perforated,or of any porous non-combustible substance snfiiciently open to admitthe smoke to pass through freely, and the efi'ect will be the same as ifmade of wire gauze. Said cylinders may be easily and quickly taken outof the outer tube for the purpose of cleaning, and replaced therein.

Having thus fully described-my invention, and the several modes ofcarrying it into effect, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

A tobacco-smokingtube, formed by combining an outer tube with aninnorwire-gauze, perforated, or porous cylinder in either of-the forms abovedescribed, so that the smoke willbe drawn to the month without passingthrough the tobacco, substantially as set forth.

J. M. ALEXANDER.-

Witnesses:

J. J. Coomns, v Jos. L. GooMBs.

